"Haunted Histories and Troubled Pasts demonstrates how a transnational array of recent screen entertainments participate, through horror, in public discourses of history, the social and creative work of reshaping popular understanding of our world through the lens of the past. The essays address 21st-century screen horror's fascination with and concern for the historical - its recurrent reimagining of the relation between the past and present. They are concerned with the historical work of horror's spectral occupations, its visceral threats of violence and its capacity for exploring repressed…mehr
"Haunted Histories and Troubled Pasts demonstrates how a transnational array of recent screen entertainments participate, through horror, in public discourses of history, the social and creative work of reshaping popular understanding of our world through the lens of the past. The essays address 21st-century screen horror's fascination with and concern for the historical - its recurrent reimagining of the relation between the past and present. They are concerned with the historical work of horror's spectral occupations, its visceral threats of violence and its capacity for exploring repressed social identities, as well as the ruptures and impositions of colonization and nationhood"--Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Amanda Howell is Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies at Griffith University, Australia. Her most recent publications appear in Continuum and The New Review of Film and Television Studies and in the edited collections Screening the Gothic in Australia and New Zealand (2022) and Australian Genre Film (2021). She is the co-author of Monstrous Possibilities: The Female Monster in 21st Century Screen Horror (2022) and author of A Different Tune: Popular Music and Masculinity in Action (2015). Stephanie Green is Adjunct Senior Lecturer at Griffith University, Australia. She co-edited Hospitality, Rape and Consent in Vampire Popular Culture (2017) with Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bienkowska and David Baker and co-produced several special issues. Her most research publications include, 'Violence and the Gothic New Woman in Penny Dreadful, FULGOR 6.3 (2021) and 'Playing at Being a Superhero', Imagining the Impossible 1.1 (2022).
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Acknowledgements List of Editors and Contributors 1. Introduction: History, Historiography and Horror in the Twenty-first Century Amanda Howell (Griffith University, Australia) and Stephanie Green (Griffith University, Australia) Part 1: Spectral Encounters and Haunted Histories 2. Ghosts, Vampires and Sacrilege in Warwick Thornton's The Darkside, Firebite and The New Boy Felicity Collins (La Trobe University, University) 3. Undead Heritage: Environmental Trauma and Curses that Never Die in Takashi Shimizu's 'Village' Trilogy Simon Bacon (Independent Scholar, Poland) 4. Deferred Demons: Diasporizing the Haunted Home in Babak Anvari's Under the Shadow David Ellison (Griffith University, Australia) and Zach Karpinellison (Australian National University) Part 2: Found Footage Horrors 5. 'It's Too Late for All of Us': Ritual, Repression and the Historical Imagination in Noroi: The Curse Jeremy Kingston (Griffith University, Australia) 6. Congruent Apprehensions of History in Irish Horror Cinema Stephen Joyce (Aarhus University, Denmark) Part 3: History and Horror in Televisual Storyworlds 7. Lace Collars and Cowboy Cravats: Gothic Time-travelling with Penny Dreadful and The Nevers Stephanie Green (Griffith University, Australia) 8. Pretty Ballads, Bastard Truths: History, Memory and the Past in The Witcher Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bienkowska (Jagiellonian University, Poland) 9. 'Brings Back Some Memories': Spectres of History in Twin Peaks: The Return Martin Fradley (University of Aberdeen and University of Manchester, UK) and John A. Riley (Solbridge International School of Business, South Korea) Part 4: Female Monsters and Revolting Women 10. 'We're Americans': Remembering the 'Other America' in Jordan Peele's Us Amanda Howell (Griffith University, Australia) 11. 'Cut Them Up': Lily Frankenstein, Valerie Solanas and the Reanimation of Radical Feminism in Penny Dreadful Anthea Taylor (University of Sydney, Australia) Part 5: Engaging the Past through Body Horror 12. 'Laden with Human Flesh': Dying Breed and Australia's Engagement with its Convict Past Clare Burnett (Griffith University, Australia) 13. Killing Private Zombie: Overlord and the Twenty-first Century Military Horror Film Brian E. Crim (University of Lynchburg, USA) 14. Post-socialist Body Horror(s): On Exhaustion and Social Death in The Life and Death of a Porno Gang and A Serbian Film Andrija Filipovic (Singidunum University, Serbia) Index
Acknowledgements List of Editors and Contributors 1. Introduction: History, Historiography and Horror in the Twenty-first Century Amanda Howell (Griffith University, Australia) and Stephanie Green (Griffith University, Australia) Part 1: Spectral Encounters and Haunted Histories 2. Ghosts, Vampires and Sacrilege in Warwick Thornton's The Darkside, Firebite and The New Boy Felicity Collins (La Trobe University, University) 3. Undead Heritage: Environmental Trauma and Curses that Never Die in Takashi Shimizu's 'Village' Trilogy Simon Bacon (Independent Scholar, Poland) 4. Deferred Demons: Diasporizing the Haunted Home in Babak Anvari's Under the Shadow David Ellison (Griffith University, Australia) and Zach Karpinellison (Australian National University) Part 2: Found Footage Horrors 5. 'It's Too Late for All of Us': Ritual, Repression and the Historical Imagination in Noroi: The Curse Jeremy Kingston (Griffith University, Australia) 6. Congruent Apprehensions of History in Irish Horror Cinema Stephen Joyce (Aarhus University, Denmark) Part 3: History and Horror in Televisual Storyworlds 7. Lace Collars and Cowboy Cravats: Gothic Time-travelling with Penny Dreadful and The Nevers Stephanie Green (Griffith University, Australia) 8. Pretty Ballads, Bastard Truths: History, Memory and the Past in The Witcher Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bienkowska (Jagiellonian University, Poland) 9. 'Brings Back Some Memories': Spectres of History in Twin Peaks: The Return Martin Fradley (University of Aberdeen and University of Manchester, UK) and John A. Riley (Solbridge International School of Business, South Korea) Part 4: Female Monsters and Revolting Women 10. 'We're Americans': Remembering the 'Other America' in Jordan Peele's Us Amanda Howell (Griffith University, Australia) 11. 'Cut Them Up': Lily Frankenstein, Valerie Solanas and the Reanimation of Radical Feminism in Penny Dreadful Anthea Taylor (University of Sydney, Australia) Part 5: Engaging the Past through Body Horror 12. 'Laden with Human Flesh': Dying Breed and Australia's Engagement with its Convict Past Clare Burnett (Griffith University, Australia) 13. Killing Private Zombie: Overlord and the Twenty-first Century Military Horror Film Brian E. Crim (University of Lynchburg, USA) 14. Post-socialist Body Horror(s): On Exhaustion and Social Death in The Life and Death of a Porno Gang and A Serbian Film Andrija Filipovic (Singidunum University, Serbia) Index
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